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- Race walking (975 bytes)
1: ...their hips to lengthen their strides. World-class racewalkers can walk a mile in under 6 minutes.
3: In competition, racewalkers are expected to maintain good form and are...
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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...lumbus''' ([[1451]]<sup>[[#Early life|1]]</sup> – [[20 May]] [[1506]]) ( ''Cristòfor Colom'' in...
5: ...led by [[João Vaz Corte-Real]] to Terra Verde (today's Newfoundland). [[Giovanni Caboto]] (better kno...
7: ... in the Bahamas) is celebrated as a [[Holiday|holiday]].
11: ...ome – including many [[Native Americans]] – view him as responsible, directly or indirectl...
21: ...ant, and his mother was Susanna Fontanarossa, the daughter of a woollens merchant. Christopher had thr... - Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
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10: ...sissippi River valley causing $2 to $4 billion in damage.
12: ...uitted of all charges related to her death of her daughter, Caylee; she was convicted of four counts o...
21: ...hootout with police and Dzhokhar was detained the day after. - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
3: '''Denis Diderot''' ([[October 5]], [[1713]] – [[July 31]], [[1784]]) was a [[France|French]]...
7: ...t graphic of all the pictures that we have of the daily life of the philosophic circle in Paris.
10: ...f Medicine'' (1746–1748) and about the same date he published a free rendering of Shaftesbury's ...
14: ...what interested the militant philosophers of that day was an episodic application of the principle of ...
29: ...angerous ideas they held were now made truly formidable by their open publication. In 1759 the ''Encyc... - Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
9: ...burb [[Mountlake Terrace, Washington|Mountlake Terrace]] because it reminded her of Indianapolis. She le...
31: ...dds a very childish and unworthy character to the race," said Senn's campaign spokeswoman Barbara Stenso...
33: ...ed up having three debates, during which the candidates harshly attacked each other. Senn attacked Rea...
37: ...ere among the most important issues in Cantwell's race against Gorton. Cantwell also adopted the slogan,...
41: ... of 2.5 million ballots cast, or about .08%. A mandatory recount increased her lead to 2,229 votes, or... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
15: |'''Date of Birth'''
29: ... a vote of 85-13, and she was sworn in later that day.
34: ...s a high-school guidance counsellor, and was an ordained minister who preached on weekends; Rice's mot...
35: ...[http://www.wnyc.org/legacy/shows/madaboutmusic/madabout_transcript090701.html]
37: ... be "twice as good" as non-minorities [http://www.racematters.org/lessononlifecondoleezzarice.htm]. - Debbie Stabenow (3609 bytes)
5: ...e Jane Abraham is rumored to be a Republican candidate for Stabenow's [[2006]] reelection).
11: ... Daschle]], who lost a re-election bid in [[South Dakota]]. Senator [[Dick Durbin]], D-Ill., was elect... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: '''Emma Goldman''' ([[June 27]], [[1869]] – [[May 14]], [[1940]]) was a [[Lithuania]]n-bor...
21: ...chist sympathizer, had shot the President several days before. The authorities' attempt to associate h...
29: ...ecting the hearing, called her ''"one of the most dangerous anarchists in America."''
59: * <blockquote>"If I can't dance, it's not my revolution" - widely attributed, ...
61: ...f-evident: that all human beings, irrespective of race, color, or sex, are born with the equal right to ... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...t Higgins Sanger''' ([[September 14]], [[1879]] – [[September 6]], [[1966]]) was an [[United Sta...
5: ...ollowed in subsequent years by a second son and a daughter who died in childhood.
7: ... outlawed as [[obscene]] the dissemination of contraceptive information and devices.
13: With [[Lothrup Stoddard]], and [[C. C. Little]] Sanger founded the Amer...
21: Sanger's books include ''Woman and the New Race'' (1920), ''Happiness in Marriage'' (1926), and a... - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
2: '''Amy Johnson''' ([[July 1]], [[1903]] – [[January 5]], [[1941]]) was a famous English ...
8: ...t year and landed in [[Darwin, Northern Territory|Darwin, Australia]] on [[May 24]] after flying 11,00...
18: ...lland Comet]] in the England to [[Australia]] air race. Johnson was to divorce Mollison in [[1938]]. - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
4: ... age 14 left her home in [[DeFuniak Springs, Florida]], working as a hairdresser until she wound up in...
10: ...ia|Los Angeles]] to [[Cleveland, Ohio|Cleveland]] race because officials restricted entrants to men only...
12: ...ished Service Medal (USA)|Distinguished Service Medal]].
16: ... She is the only woman to ever receive the Gold Medal from the [[Federation Aeronautique International...
18: ..., [[California]], Jacqueline Cochran flew a [[Canada|Canadian]] [[F-86 Sabre]] jet at an average speed... - Denise Bloch (2657 bytes)
9: ...ished contact with SOE agent and Benoist's fellow race car driver, [[Jean-Pierre Wimille]]. However, in ...
11: ...humously, Britain awarded her the "[[King's Commendation for Brave Conduct]]." In France, posthumous h... - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ...d her 13th nomination for ''[[Adaptation (movie)|Adaptation]]''. Hepburn won an [[Emmy Award]] in [[1...
5: ...father was a staunch proponent of publicizing the dangers of [[venereal disease]] in a time when such ...
7: ...ater be recognized for her athletic physicality — she fearlessly performed her own pratfalls in ...
12: ...n and Smith's marriage was rocky from the start — she insisted he change his name to S. Ogden Lu...
21: ...zon]] princess in [[The Warrior's Husband]] (an update of ''[[Lysistrata]]''), which debuted to excell... - Fanny Blankers-Koen (14562 bytes)
1: ...[[1948 Summer Olympics]]. Left of her is silver medallist [[Maureen Gardner]], while 3rd place finishe...
3: ...ete]]. She is most famous for winning four gold medals at the [[1948 Summer Olympics]] in [[London]]. ...
13: ...ompetition was a disappointment, but in her third race, she set a new National Record in the 800 [[metre...
15: ...e 4 נ100 m [[relay]], both held on the same day. In the high jump, she took sixth place (shared ...
17: ...d]]s), and she also won her first international medals. At the European Championships in [[Vienna]], s... - Dawn Fraser (2591 bytes)
1: '''Dawn Fraser''' (born [[September 4]] [[1937]]) is an...
2: ...ames|Olympic]] and eight [[Commonwealth Games]] medals. In [[October]] [[1962]] she became the first ...
11: ... metres [[freestyle swimming|freestyle]] - gold medal
12: **400 metres freestyle - silver medal
13: ...00 metres freestyle [[relay race|relay]] - gold medal - Eliska Junkova (2642 bytes)
4: ...winning and by 1926 was good enough to compete in races around Europe against the best male drivers of t...
6: ...ly woman in history to have ever won a Grand Prix race. - Ellen MacArthur (3652 bytes)
2: Dame '''Ellen Patricia MacArthur''', [[Order of the ...
8: ...the [[Vendee Globe]] solo round-the-world sailing race in her boat ''Kingfisher'' (named after her spons...
14: ... around one and a quarter hours, after over seven days of sailing.
16: ...ecord set by French sailor [[Francis Joyon]] by 1 day, 8 hours, 35 minutes, 49 seconds.
18: ...nder]] of the [[Royal Naval Reserve]] on the same day. - Shirley Muldowney (1811 bytes)
2: ...was no place for women. [[Don Garlits]], the "Big Daddy" of drag racing, has said about her:
3: ...t want her to race Top Fuel, the association, the racers, nobody...Just Shirley."[http://www.zoomster.co...
4: Muldowney was described by longtime drag racer [[Fred Farndon]] as the "best 'natural' driver (... - Iris (plant) (13374 bytes)
6: ...x_classis_entry | taxon = [[monocotyledon|Liliopsida]]}}
8: {{Taxobox_familia_entry | taxon = [[Iridaceae]]}}
9: ...axobox authority|author = [[Carolus Linnaeus|L.]]|date = [[1753]]}}
28: ...species, such as ''I. germanica, fiorenhina, pallida, variegata, amoena, flavescens, sambucina, neglec...
30: ...To this set belong ''milifolia'', ''junonia'', ''danfordiae'', ''reichenbachii'' and others which flo... - Hillary Rodham Clinton (17176 bytes)
15: ...otal of 12 years. In [[1980]] the Clintons' only daughter, [[Chelsea Clinton|Chelsea]], was born.
18: ...w.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/keyraces2000/stories/hillary032199.htm]
20: ...st Lady, she chaired the Arkansas Educational Standards Committee, co-founded the Arkansas Advocates f...
29: ==Whitewater scandal==
31: ...ome a critical factor during the [[Whitewater scandal]], while her husband was President. While in Ar... - Breast (4630 bytes)
24: ...ace, and a face on ecounter would have helped foundate a relationship between partners beyond merely a...
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